On 15Nov30:1354-0600, Ed Gould wrote: > On Nov 30, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > > >Charles Mills wrote: > >----------------------SNIP-------------------------------------------- > >>Shipping the source is utterly out of the question, > > > >Of course, you have to be crazy if you give away your bread and butter > >source for all the greedy vultures on this planet. > > > >During my private work years ago, some of my clients want the source [1] > >for 'security evaluation' or something crappy like that. A simple 'no' as > >answer and moving on to the next customer resolved that quick. > > > >[1] - Years ago it was told to me that some z/OS vendors gave the source > >code of SVC routines to satisfy their client paranoia... But generally > >their statement of integrity is enough of course. Can management read > >Assembler source listings? > > E: > > There are other vendors that ship source (at one time CA did) and not for > just their SVC's but executed programs. > In fact I debugged a source program that did not work with SWA above the > line. > I don't know of any current vendor off the top of my head that does ship > source but then they don't try to do what John is trying to do either . > > Ed
Then there's source escrow that no longer seems to be available to customers that are betting their businesses on the continued support of a software facility. I guess the bean counters believe it is less expensive to perish with the software than to paddle the canoe or identify and migrate to another product. Does such planning fall within the purview of "business continuity" these days? -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
